He who has been bitten by a snake is scared of a rope on the ground.
No matter how tall the tree is, its leaves will always fall to the ground.
Who never built a house thinks that the walls grow out of the ground.
The branch that bears the most fruit bends itself thankfully towards the ground.
Do not waste your time looking for soft ground to drive your spade in.
In the middle of a novel, a kind of magical thinking takes over. To clarify, the middle of the novel may not happen in the actual geographical centre of the novel. By middle of the novel I mean whatever page you are on when you stop being part of you...
Dead and still in the world was worse than dead and in the ground. Dead in the ground at least gave you the hope of heaven.
The moral high ground proved to be one hell of an aphrodisiac...
They said it was only a ground shark; but I was not wholly reassured. It is as bad to be eaten by a ground shark as by any other.
Not everything needs to be said. The silences, the words that aren’t spoken, lead us to the questions we should be asking.
Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground.
If you always look at the sky, you miss the good things on the ground; if you always look at the ground, you miss the good things in the sky!
I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make everything - to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.
When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.
I don't think a Palestinian state is going to be created at a conference table; it will be created on the ground in the West Bank, and some day, a peace conference will ratify that which has been built on the ground.
I think all of us who have been in Afghanistan on the ground multiple times know that what we're doing there on the ground is just not sustainable.
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
American nuclear reactors are well into middle age. The median age of an operating reactor in the U.S. is 34 years, placing start-up in midst of the Carter administration.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.
Fear of our own depths is the enemy.